FOUNDING OF AMERICA
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the U.S. Constitution?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
his war led the American colonies to gain independence from Great Britain.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
This civil rights leader delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Boston Tea Party protested this British tax on a popular drink.
What is the tax on tea?
Adopted in 1776, this document announced that the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Union fought the Confederacy in this war from 1861 to 1865.
What is the Civil War?
She refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This deadly 1918 pandemic spread worldwide during the final year of World War I.
What is the Spanish flu?
This 1803 deal with France nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
He was the only U.S. president to serve more than two elected terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The United States entered this global conflict after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What is World War II?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
In 1969, Americans watched this historic achievement as humans first landed on the Moon.
What is the Apollo 11 Moon landing?
This 1787 meeting produced the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE This 1812 conflict was fought between the United States and Great Britain.
What is the War of 1812?
This 1964 law prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and employment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
This famous American symbol was originally a gift from France and arrived in New York Harbor in 1885.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE This compromise created a two-house Congress with representation based on both population and equal state representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
Before becoming president, this leader served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This 1950–1953 conflict ended with an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty.
What is the Korean War?
This 1965 law protected voting rights and targeted discriminatory voting practices.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
During World War II, the United States government secretly developed this weapon at facilities across the country, including a famous laboratory in New Mexico.
What is the atomic bomb?